Richard Kadison | |
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Born | July 25, 1925 |
Nationality | American |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
Alma mater | University of Chicago |
Doctoral advisor | Marshall Harvey Stone |
Doctoral students |
James Glimm Richard Lashof Erling Størmer Gert Pedersen Marc Rieffel |
Notable awards | Steele Prize (1999) |
Richard V. Kadison (b. July 25, 1925) is an American mathematician known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras. He is a Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Pennsylvania.
Kadison is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (elected in 1996), and a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He is a 1969 Guggenheim Fellow.
Richard Kadison was awarded the 1999 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the American Mathematical Society. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Dick Kadison was a skilled gymnast with a specialty in rings. He married Karen M. Holm on June 5, 1956, and they have one son, Lars.